Rochester Fringe 2017 for me began with a massively inspiring performance that felt like a love note to everyone in the audience. FuturPointe Dance’s “Elephant Grass: An Afrofutur-Mystic Tale” is a femme-forward, “She-Ro” quest to shake off all that well-known negative shit and do the hard work of figuring out what you’re here to do. […]
Guy Thorne
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Dance review: Garth Fagan home season
Garth Fagan Dance premiered two pieces to an appreciative audience Wednesday night at Nazareth College’s Arts Center during the opening of its 2016 home season. Both pieces — Fagan’s “In Conflict” and Norwood Pennewell’s “A Moderate Cease” — were well-received, albeit different in sensibility. Pennewell’s “A Moderate Cease,” the sixth piece he has choreographed for […]
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Artistry and swagger
During the 2014 Rochester Fringe Festival, FuturPointe, a Rochester-based dance company co-founded by Guy Thorne and N’Jelle Gage, presented “Unbridled” with photographer Carrie Mateosian. While the audience crowded up close at the outside venue downtown, company members Liam Knighten and Melinda Phillips each had a turn at being photographed by Mateosian while they were being […]
